Problems of Music Representation
Code
722021026
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria de São José Côrte-Real
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Identifying different kinds of problems of music representation within the 12 decades of existence of the academic ethnomusicological field of Ethnomusicology.
2. Acquiring knowledge around the main ethnomusicological approaches toward representation of music and nation, a problematizing issue throughout its academic history.
3. Acquiring the main conceptual tools for a critical perspective on the literature and media production dealing with the seminar theme.
4. Developing the capacity to problematize within the scope of a particular issue advocating its interest and pointing a research strategy.
5. Developing the capacity to apply the acquired knowledge in the preparation and writing of a research essay.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
A. General perspective on different types of problems of music representation throughout the 12 decades of the history of the ethnomusicological academic domain.
B. Perspectives, publications and authors with relevant production on the topic music representation and nation in the history of Ethnomusicology and the Social Sciences.
C. Critical ethnomusicological approaches to one of the central themes in the discipline: music representation and nation.
D. Selected case studies directly or indirectly related the seminar theme proposed.
E. Written research essays revealing the acquired knowledge related with the proposed seminar theme.
Bibliography
Askew, K. (2002). Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania. Chicago: UCP.
Bohlman, P. (2004). The Music of European Nationalism. St Barbara: ABC-Clio.
Carvalho, J. S. (1995). A Nação Folclórica: projecção nacional, política cultural e etnicidade em Portugal. Trans online.
Côrte-Real, M.S.J. (2000). Cultural Policy and Musical Expression in the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy in Portugal. Doct Diss. NY: Columbia University.
Lafleur, J. e M. Martiniello (2010). Music, Musicians and the Latino Vote at the 2008 US Presidential Election. In M. Côrte-Real (Ed.) Music and Migration, Migrações 7, 213-230.
Schultz, A. (2013). Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism. Oxford: OUP.
Tuohi, S. (2006). The Sonic Dimensions of Nationalism in Modern China: Musical Representation and Transformation. In J. Post, Ethnomusicology. NY: Routledge.
Washabaugh, W. (2012). Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain. Burlington: Ashgate.
Teaching method
This course will be taught as a seminar. The first part of theoretical character (50%) includes oral presentations and discussions by teacher and students, of case studies, critical approaches to the relevant literature and the applicability of the learned perspectives to specific cases, related to the proposed theme. In the second part of the term, more practical (50%), of more individual and dialoguing character, between teacher and each student in particular, in alone and group moments, the work follows accompanying the conception and written development of a research essay in the so called rehearsal methodology, in three versions.
Evaluation method
Evaluation, to negotiate in the first week of the term, develops mainly in turn of the written work to produce: 1 text about a meaningful musical aspect (3000 cws) (15%); 1 text about a problem of music representation related with the theme (5000 cws) (15%); 3 versions of the research essay (15%+20%+20%); participation and oral presentation (15%).